ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

AI clocks first-known 'binary sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system'. Another AI will be along shortly to tell us how to pronounce that properly

(2021/01/26)

The cosmic ballet goes on

North Korea infected infosec bods with backdoors via dodgy blog pages, Visual Studio files – Google

(2021/01/26)

Security eggheads discover their PCs chatting with Kim Jong Un's hackers

Google, Microsoft pitch in some spare change to keep Mozilla's Web Docs online bible alive

(2021/01/26)

Turns out having coherent API documentation is useful for, well, everyone

What's a COVID-19 outbreak? Amazon gets all Trumpy over Alabama warehouse workers' mail-in vote to form a union

(2021/01/26)

Meanwhile, staff get unexpected backing from football players

In a trial run, Google Chrome to corral netizens into groups for tailored web ads rather than target individuals

(2021/01/26)

The third-party advertising cookie: Barely tolerated anymore. We can rebuild it, internet titan insists, we have the technology.

Biden said to be assembling cyber dream team to sort out US govt computer security

(2021/01/25)

With a little $10bn package proposed to help them on their way

The digital road to energy transition

(2021/01/25)

Huawei paves a clear path for the energy industry's digital transformation

Digital burglars break into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission

(2021/01/25)

Miscreant fingered server that held docs related to credit applications down under

Smartphones are becoming like white goods, says analyst, with users only upgrading when their handsets break

(2021/01/25)

Upgrades? It's a bit of a Hotpoint

Going, going, gone... until March: UK comms regulator delays 5G spectrum auction over pandemic logistics

(2021/01/25)

Some things can wait, even if it is central to the 'economy's recovery'

Restructuring causing trouble with your Microsoft 365 tenancy? Here's a trio who can help you out

(2021/01/25)

Tune in here to find out how to smooth those tricky tenant-to-tenant migrations

The API that will not die: Microsoft opens crypt to unleash Win32 on Rust

(2021/01/25)

Going low-level with C# and more

12 tech merchants win slices of £504m NHS framework without competition because everything is terrible

(2021/01/25)

Ain't nobody got time for that

Man arrested after UK school finds wiped hard drives on devices connected to network

(2021/01/25)

Police pull out classic 'sophisticated cyber attack' line

Apple: Magsafe on the iPhone 12 may interfere with pacemakers and cardiac defibrilators

(2021/01/25)

No, no, this shocker isn't related to the price of the hardware

Fedora's Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome

(2021/01/25)

'They're not closing a security hole, they're just requiring that everyone use Chrome'

UK government's cloud ERP strategy seems to be in stasis following top civil servant's move to COVID-19 task force

(2021/01/25)

Or maybe it's that no one wants to touch this complex SaaS migration

Showering malware-laced laptops on UK schools is the wrong way to teach them about cybersecurity

(2021/01/25)

The Department for Education needs to learn its lesson too

Freezing in Newcastle? You're not alone: For one lonesome creature, the world stopped on 31 Dec 2020

(2021/01/25)

The Natwest ATM of woe says no, bleats a plaintive: Børk!

You would expect a qualified electrician to wire a building to spec, right? Trust... but verify

(2021/01/25)

What could be wrong when two UPSes commit seppuku?

The Great Movie Posters:

An AVALANCHE of KILLER WORMS!
-- Squirm (1976)

Most Movies Live Less Than Two Hours.
This Is One of Everlasting Torment!
-- The New House on the Left (1977)

WE ARE GOING TO EAT YOU!
-- Zombie (1980)

It's not human and it's got an axe.
-- The Prey (1981)